Word: closetfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HARD TO TELL WHICH IS FASTER THESE DAYS, the speed of data as they pass through increasingly efficient chips or the speed of change in the personal- computer industry. Thanks largely to recent innovations in microprocessor technology, many of today's desktop machines are just as powerful as closet- size mainframes. The latest entry is the Pentium, a new chip developed by Intel that is almost as fast as some supercomputers. The chip, the size of a thumbnail, contains 3.1 million transistors. Not only does the Pentium -- which will be the "brain" of personal computers -- have plenty of giddyap...
...Club. "My wish to the Russian President," he said, "is to take the initiative in his own hands." Few knew better than Gorbachev the fate of those who failed to show courage at the decisive moment: when the August coup of 1991 collapsed after three days, Gorbachev chose to closet himself in the Kremlin instead of rushing out to the barricades and embracing the man who had stood up to the plotters and vowed never to surrender...
...kitchen cabinets will be installed, along with new countertops. Refrigerators will be moved into nearby closets to make more space in the kitchen, and general cabinets will be added in the remaining closet space...
...Cabot has never been wanting for facilities. Of all the houses, rooming is consistently the best. No Dunster closet-doubles here. And no silly 2:30 a.m. fire alarms...
Rafsky left Harvard in 1968. He tried teaching, but eventually settled on jobs that earned him a more comfortable living. He worked in public relations in New York. He got married and had a daughter, Sara. But in 1985, he came out of the closet and divorced his wife. Sometime, probably in 1987, he contracted AIDS...